Where does “digmaang nuklear” come from?
digmaang nuklear (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog digmaan, from Latin digma, from Ancient Greek δεῖγμα, from Ancient Greek μά, from Old Italian ma, from Latin magis, from Dutch magisch, from Dutch magie.
digmaang nuklear (Tagalog): nuclear war
Definitions
- nuclear war
Ancestry of “digmaang nuklear”, step by step
digmaang nuklear traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Tagalog digmaan
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | digmaan | war; battle |
| 2 | Latin | digma | A specimen; An ensign on the shields of soldiers |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | δεῖγμα | specimen, sample; pattern |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | μά | by |
| 5 | Old Italian | ma | — |
| 6 | Latin | magis | more; more greatly; better |
| 7 | Dutch | magisch | magical, controlled or determined by supernatural... |
| 8 | Dutch | magie | magic, sorcery occult woo, black or white magic, etc.; hence supernatural occurrences or phenonomena |
| 9 | French | magie | magic; A magical, surprising, fascinating feat;... |
| 10 | Middle French | magie | — |
| 11 | Latin | magīa | magic, sorcery |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | μαγεία | theology of the Magians |
| 13 | Ancient Greek | Μάγος | magician, and derogatorily sorcerer, trickster,... |
| 14 | Old Persian | 𐎶𐎦𐏁 | priest |
| 15 | Proto-Iranian | magúš | — |
via German nuklear
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | nuklear | nuclear |
| 2 | Spanish | nuclear | nuclear; to join up; to unite |
| 3 | Spanish | núcleo | nucleus |
| 4 | Latin | nū̆cleus | (small) nut |
| 5 | Latin | nuculea | pertaining to a small nut |
| 6 | Latin | -eus | argentum + API → argenteus; ferrum + API →... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -εῖος | Forms adjectives, usually with a meaning of "of"... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -iHwós | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -wós | Creates adjectives from verb stems |